Good Christian Mottos

SOURCE: the daily
http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2011/03/01/con-la-scuola- pubblica-sempre/94589 /

With the public school, always

Sonia Alfano

of you, like me, have small children or teenagers, knows very well the public school

and its teachers. He knows how much dedication and passion to get up each morning to serve

the objective of sharing and giving some of their knowledge to enrich

each student. Those teachers, with that gesture, they do something great not only for

that class but the whole of Italy. Who knows the world of public school knows what the

salary for teachers is totally inadequate compared to what these people do

for all students, for those awake, for those bright, for the most difficult

for the disabled and also, perhaps above all, for those of school, apparently, does not want to hear about

. Few are those teachers who do this job for

salary, in that case would do more. Many are those who do so despite a post

fisso non ce l’abbiano e forse non ce l’avranno mai: sono “i precari della scuola”, gli “ultimi

della classe” li chiamano. Mio padre stesso, che giornalista lo era per hobby, per missione di

vita direbbe oggi qualcuno, era un insegnante di educazione tecnica. E nei suoi occhi vedevo la

passione senza la quale questo lavoro diventa addirittura dannoso per gli studenti. ( ......)

A me oggi mancano altri discorsi e altre parole sulla scuola pubblica. Manca un grande padre

della patria, un partigiano, un resistente che 61 anni fa aveva già tristemente presagito quel che

sarebbe potuto accadere e che oggi has largely seen the light. The man was Piero Calamandrei and

was the February 11, 1950, during the third congress in defense of the National School in Rome.

I want to bring just a few steps to "cool" these words should be carved before

to every school, every educational institution, lest we forget

already the founding fathers never feared for the health and freedom of our school and

have left us the task to defend and watch over it every day.


"There are also Party schools or church schools. But the State must monitor, le deve


regolare; le deve tenere nei loro limiti e deve riuscire a far meglio di loro. La scuola di


Stato, insomma, deve essere una garanzia, perché non si scivoli in quello che sarebbe la fine


della scuola e forse la fine della democrazia e della libertà, cioè nella scuola di partito”.


“ [...] Allora, il partito dominante segue un’altra strada (è tutta un’ipotesi teorica,


intendiamoci). Comincia a trascurare le scuole pubbliche, to discredit, to impoverish. Let


anemizzino and that begins to favor private schools. Not all private schools. Schools


of his party, that party. And then all the treatments start to go to these schools


private. Cure of money and privileges. He even begins to advise children to


go to these schools, because basically it says are better than those of the state. "


"[...] The ruling party, unable to turn openly the State schools in


Party schools, send the dogs to schools to give priority to the state's schools


private. [...] The operation is done in three ways: you've already told you: ruin the State schools.


let them go to hell. Depleting their budgets. Ignore their needs. Mitigate the


supervision and control over private schools. Do not check its reliability. Let


teach teachers who do not have titles standards for teaching. Let examinations


are jokes. Giving public money to private schools. This is the point. Giving public money to private schools. "


E 'to these words, these concepts that I want to defend my school, the

our school, the subversive aims of a man is not insane but lucid that he understood that, after the media have been taxed

The last bastion is the school uniform the brain

public. Would only private schools that do not respond to the ethics of teachers, but sponsors and donors.
E 'for these words that I can only stand proudly on the side of public school teachers

and I will not let this worthy heir to the Fascist bring to fruition his plan

of mass destruction of the minds of our youth.